Why has Digital $ in their headerfiles in ultrix?

[James Brister]

The idea behind the '$' in VMS tokens/filenames etc. Was that the '$' was
"reserved" to DEC, and therefor wouldn't ever clash with a user or
thrid-paty specified token/filename etc.

Unfortunately, until recently the DEC universe has been revolving around
VMS (now it's a binary star system), so extracting all the VMS'isms from
stuff moved to Ultrix is a lot of work.

James "Who is in NO way speakling for DEC (they don't pay me enough)."
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James Brister                                           brister at decwrl.dec.com
DEC Western Software Lab., Palo Alto, CA    {uunet,sun,pyramid}!decwrl!brister